Purity and Sterility

Purity

Purity noun - The quality or state of being morally pure.

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Sterility and purity are semantically related In some cases you can use "Sterility" instead a noun "Purity".

Nearby Words: pure, purify, purely, purified, purification

Sterility noun - (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms.

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Purity and sterility are semantically related in asepsis topic. You can use "Purity" instead a noun "Sterility".

human	human purity	human sterility
female	female purity	female sterility
perfect	perfect purity	perfect sterility
male	male purity	male sterility
Other adjectives: higher, cultural, genetic.

Obsessed with genetic purity, they inbred themselves to the point of sterility, dooming themselves to extinction within a generation.

Source: Absolute Xenophobe
In Ben 10: Alien Force, the reason the Highbreed attempted to annihilate every planet in existence is because they had reached their last generation (their beliefs of racial purity leading to sterility), and they intended for all life in the universe to perish with them.

Source: Last of His Kind

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